This video, in honor of Hazon’s Party here in New York with the 92Y Tribeca is pretty cute. But what really caught my eye was just how much food played into it. Food can always be code for identity, but here I found the rapid fire use of mayo (not Jewish), rugelach and bagels and Manashevitz (need I even say, Jewish?), pork (not Jewish) and then the big finale of mayo = shmaltz a pretty funny way of coding the main character’s Jewiness. There are multiple “inappropriate” uses of Jewish foods which mark this little snippet as a Jewish parody of the original. What the original story is here is lost on me and my cultural cluelessness…

I counted 6 uses of iconic Jewish and non-Jewish foods in the 3 minutes 25 seconds of video here…did anyone catch more? And, strangely enough, the symbolic foods of THIS holiday do not appear (really, just Hamentashen. Stay tuned for more thoughts on Hamentashen through the week). Any thoughts on why that might be?